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Friday, September 27, 2013

Today we went to Kirbyville TX and deconstructed 90 x 30 greenhouse. A special thanks to Trent And Kade Sherwin, Doug Tibbits, Jori Higgins, Greg Caldwell and my wife and children for helping me today. It was hot and humid and fire ants were everywhere!

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Here are some new pics I took this morning in our greenhouse. The growth in one week is extraordinary. One of the tomato plants has reached the ceiling!! Tonight we will move the strawberries to their own system.

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Today we have been constructing our vertical strawberry towers which will grow 65 plants per tower. They are made out of NEW 4 inch sewer pipe that is cut in 5 ft lengths. We the mark and till all our holes offset from each other 2.5 inches horizontal and 2 inches vertically.

This a picture of our pipe after cutting and drilling all the holes.

We also started our Dutch bucket hydroponics system. We got 26 2.5 and 3 gallon icing buckets from some local bakeries and donut shops. We plumbed them and now all we have to do is fill with perlite and plants then hook up out sump system.

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Thanks to the help of Doug Tibbits, Paul Praschnik, and Trent Sherwin, we have finished our new 10 x 12 hydroponics greenhouse. Almost all of the supplies were donated or recycled! I'm looking forward to growing food year round in it!

This is it finished with the shade cloth to keep it cool during the heat of the summer.

About the Manna Project

The Manna Project is a missionary work under the oversight of the Vidor, TX church of Christ Our mission is to train preachers, preacher training schools, and congregations around the world to be self- supporting by teaching them vocations such as horticulture and sustainable agriculture. When they become self supporting we can then divert the monies used once to support them to then begin new works around the world and spread even further the good news of Jesus Christ and His Church.